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free online resource for teaching and learning history. It follows the National Curriculum for key stages 2 to 5.

* Teachers will find original documents, photographs and film from The National Archives, supported with background information, worksheets and lesson plans.

* Students will find games and activities for thinking and learning about our past, and advice on studying and revision.

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archive of over 2,000 lesson plans, which you can search using keywords or browse by subject or unit. Nearly all of the lessons are easily adaptable for use across the curriculum or with current Times articles on a similar topic.

We are also providing Teaching with The Times guides, designed to help you supplement your curriculum effortlessly. On these pages you will find a rich array of resources, including lesson plans, quizzes, crosswords and multimedia, all in one place for easy reference.

Topics include Immigration, Global Warming, Literature, Journalism, Election 2008, The Human Body and many more.

What if you had to design a roller coaster that provided maximum thrills, while still keeping riders safe? The JASON Project's Coaster Creator digital lab is an interactive game that explores the science behind roller coasters. Use your knowledge of potential energy and kinetic energy to design your own coaster. Rapid energy transfer is the key to roller coaster thrills but be careful — too much kinetic energy and you’ll crash, too little and you'll stall. Play this game and find out if your coaster will be a smash or a snore!

Coaster Creator is an online digital lab from Operation: Infinite Potential, the new middle-school energy curriculum from The JASON Project. Have fun and explore current science with JASON's great explorers and great events. But don't take our word for it, design your coaster now!

designing your own roller coaster

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World Adventure Kids!: the beginnings

"The Karooba site includes the following features:\n\n* One the largest collections of education-based (over 100,000) trivia questions\n* Educational games that allow you to:\no Challenge friends around the world in one-on-one trivia games\no Join a tournament on education based topics or set up a tournament of friends or classmates\no Try your luck in a new Find-it game\no Create your own quizzes and see how others score on your test\n* State-of-the-art avatar tool (Karoobatar) - create your near real life or cartoon characters\n* A real time communications tool (Karoobacator) - Instant message with your friends without the risk of foul language.\n\n\n\nKarooba was created and is maintained by a computer consulting firm based in Minnesota. The firm's staff, which is mostly comprised of parents with school-age kids, is very concerned (like most parents are these days) about what their children view on the Internet. With this in mind, Karooba was designed to be a 'safe haven' where kids can go to play online, as well as learn…and more importantly one that parents (and teachers) can trust. "\n\nKarooba is a social and education-based game site. It has one of the largest trivia collections on the internet - over 100,000 education-based questions and counting. Featuring a real-time communication tool (Karoobicator), state-of-the-art avatar tool (Karoobatar), and head-to-head competitive game interface, it provides the most fun and best learning experience. \n

Watch Know is a collection of thousands of educational videos from across the Internet. Watch Know has broken down the collection into an easy-to-browse catalog. You can also use a standard search box to find videos. Although the site is gathering videos from all across the web from sites like National Geographic, many of the videos are drawn from YouTube. Having videos from YouTube may be an obstacle for some teachers who would like to use Watch Know in their classrooms.

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Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices.

We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community.

The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more.